‘A Legacy of Divided Nations’: Partitions and the Making of North-Eastern India from Colonial to Post- Colonial Times

Abstract

It has been since a decade now that north-east India has become the focus of India’s Look East Policy – a policy perspective that sought to re-define India’s engagement with her south-Asian neighbourhood based, among others, on the pillars of connectivity and tourism. This re-imagination of a region that had become synonymous with politics over immigration, insurgency and insularity for decades, was at the core of the new thrust in India’s foreign policy in the new century.